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Eisenstadt, Jill From Rockaway
Alfred A. Knopf Inc 1987 0394559703 / 9780394559704 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Near-Fine
A photo of this book is available. Stated First Edition. Very-nice, clean copy. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $15.95. Tight spine, clean pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Dustcover is clean, shows light wear (NO tears). 216 pages. From Publishers Weekly If Rockaway, at the Atlantic edge of New York City, were a state of mind, it would be energized despair. Or so it seems for the teenagers in this finely tuned first novel who have spent their lives in "Rotaway" and are unlikely to get out. They drink a lot, do a little dope, talk about sex more than have it and feel no more in charge of their lives at 18 than they did in Catholic grammar school. After high school, only Alex will go away to college. The rest of her group will stay: Timmy, a dropout and a lifeguard, Alex's ex-boy friend and still in love with her; "Chowderhead," Peg and the cruel Sloane, lifeguards too, the horizons of their lives as narrow as the beaches of their summers are wide. When Alex leaves for school, Timmy misses her with an utter and believable acuity; meanwhile, he and Chowderhead work at a deli, the movie theater burns down, and Peg takes a "hat walk"a drink in every bar on the mile-long boardwalk. In Maine, Alex stumbles through her first semester, going to Dress-to-Get-Laid parties, reading anthropology texts and falling in love with Joenot a Rockaway type. The following summer brings Timmy's Death Keg, a semibarbaric ritual followed when a guard loses a swimmer and the fizzling of the group's annual bridge-jumping stunt. Combining innocence and experience, hope and hopelessness, Eisenstadt's characters seem particularly modern; if her book were a movie, it would suggest both Saturday Night Fever and St. Elmo's Fire. Film rights to Sidney Pollack. Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal Eisenstadt's fast-paced first novel chronicles the coming-of-age of four working-class Irish youths growing up in Far Rockaway during the early 1980s. The spirit of the time and place is well captured, and the numerous beach scenes (three of the main characters work as summer lifeguards) are extremely evocative. The characters lead emotionally eventful lives: Alex struggles to escape "Rotaway" on a college scholarship; Timmy searches for the father who abandoned him when he was an infant; Chowderhead temporarily adopts a precocious nine-year-old boy. Still, the reader waits for some major, unifying development. Suddenly emerging as accomplished in her craft, Eisenstadt closes with three excellent chapters, tying in the random elements and providing an unexpected yet satisfying finish. Rochelle Ratner, formerly Poetry Editor, "Soho Weekly News," New York Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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